inodes VS files

From: Bill Gradwohl (bill_at_ycc.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    I'm asking the folks on this list about this even though its not
    specifically a FEDORA question, simply because of the brain power the list
    represents.

    To make a long story short, an Administrator about 200 miles from my
    location ran the / file system out of inodes on RH7.2. It was determined
    that /opt/arkeia was where most of the inodes went, so I suggested he nuke
    /opt/arkeia after we freed up about 50 inodes by deleting some junk files.
    Instead, he did : mv /opt/arkeia /samba , samba being its own file system
    with tons of inodes. This was done in single user mode. The box was then
    restarted with no significant messages. I got status reports over the phone.

    After that mv command, the arkeia directory structure disappeared from /opt
    as would be expected. However, it never showed up at /samba. df -i still
    reports only 50 inodes available on /, out of 98000+, but the files are
    nowhere to be found on that file system.

    fsck was run, and it reports 98000+ files on /.
    Running :
            cd /
            for x in *; do echo $x; find "/$x" -mount|wc -l; done
    provides the file counts of each directory structure, and adding up the ones
    on / totals 17000+.

    /lost+found is empty.
    find commands run looking for subdirectory names known to exist under the
    original /opt/arkeia report nothing anywhere on the box. I did this thinking
    he mis-keyed the mv target, but the file /.bash_history clearly shows he
    keyed it in correctly.
    updatedb and subsequent locates also find nothing.

    Its as though there are 79000 inodes in limbo. I didn't think this was
    possible.

    Anyone with any ideas? 

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